Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, yeah to Naoko Takeuchi, and I 
really don't own the song I used for this fic.  Its a really great cd 
called Dizzy Up the Girl put out by the Goo Goo Dolls and the idea 
just wouldn't leave me alone so I had to write it, needed a break from 
my epic sized story which I'll get back to next week, promise!  I 
don't own either SM or the above mentioned song so please don't copy! 
I've read a few fics like this and wanted to experiment so here we go!  
Please let me know what you think! Email me at 
inspiredthoughts@hotmail.com

Little Note: This takes place first season(with just Ami, Serena, and 
Rei) between Jadeite and Rei during a battle that I made up, enjoy! 
Oh and there's a sentence that is a reference to my other story in 
here.  Jadeite mentions Rei's brother and unhappy home life in the 
story which goes back to Rei: First Love.  Its not critical to read it 
to understand this at all but wanted to let ya'll know where it came 
from. 


			   Reunion
	       Featuring the Song: Acoustic #3


*They painted up your secrets,
 With the lies they told to you, 
 And the least they ever gave you,
 Was the most you ever knew...*

	Jadeite ducked under the flames that came hurdling at his head.  
With a curse he narrowly missed the tiara that flew at his him.  
Gathering his energy around him he shoved down his violently 
conflicting feelings and threw his own power at the three girls that 
ringed around him in the dark alley.  Carefully he made sure that the 
brunt of the attack was aimed just a tad too high.  Hearing cries he 
winced and swore again.
	He could barely see her through the mist that Mercury made.  
Just a swirl of midnight silk for her hair and slight glimpses of 
muted red.  Red heels that encased a model's legs and a red skirt that 
covered a slender waist.  A waist that he used to hold.  Red lips he 
used to kiss...
	He wondered how much she remembered.  Probably nothing.  It 
was most likely better that way.  Sometimes he wished he hadn't 
remembered too, on that fateful day when Beryl's army was reincarnated 
after the Last Battle of the Silver Millennium.  Then he could finally 
rest...  
	Shoving the unwanted thought away he blocked back the pain 
and readied himself for another 'attack'.  He had remembered somehow, 
when they had awakened, and Beryl had bid him to kill the scouts.  He 
had agreed because he knew there was no other way.
	As long as he lived he could protect them.  As long as he made 
sure all his plans failed and managed to convince Beryl to trust him 
then she wouldn't send anyone else against his beloved and her friends.  
He knew one day...no he couldn't think of that now.
	If only Rei could remember him and their love, but no.  If she 
remembered anything at all it would be what they told her, if they 
told her anything at all he doubted it would be the truth.  If only he 
could escape Beryl...but alas that was not an option open to him.  He 
had control of his mind now because she didn't suspect him, if she did 
he would be lost.

*And I wonder where these dreams go,
 When the world gets in your way,
 What's the point in all this screaming, 
 No one's listening anyway...*

	As he fought for his life Jadeite wondered how this could have 
happened.  They had shared more than just passion, their love had been 
unrelenting and true and their dreams held a future bright as any sun.  
But they were gone now.  He mourned the loss of their future together 
as he mourned nothing else because nothing else mattered.  
	His life was empty now and he lived for the sole purpose of 
defending his true love.  He knew it wouldn't, couldn't be long now 
until Beryl either found out or killed him for his incompetence but 
any time was precious.  It gave the senshi time to build their powers 
and relearn what they needed, had to know in order to survive.  That's 
why though he never tried to kill he pushed them as far as he could.  
They had to learn *now* because they wouldn't get any more chances.
	It killed his newly remembered humanity a little more every 
time he spoke to them, to her.  Every time he saw them cringe at the 
cruel words he uttered and scream in pain if he misjudged and sent his 
power too close to them.  But it was his penance.  He had betrayed 
Rei's love and he'd gladly suffer in this hell for eternity if he 
could help her, even if it was only in the smallest of ways.

*Your voice is small and fading,
 And you hide in here unknown,
 And your mother loves your father,
 'Cause she's got nowhere to go...*

	With a flip he dodged the ice blasts sent towards him and bit 
back a cry of pain as fire seared his back.  Pain blossomed like a 
thousand needles and he felt his blood soak the back of his stiff gray 
uniform.  Biting his lip he turned and sent waves of raw energy 
towards them.  Landing lightly on a rooftop he stared down at the 
three girls.  Sailor Mars met his gaze fearlessly, her amethyst eyes 
raging with righteous anger and unleashed wrath.
	Where was his princess?  Did she exist under that cold shell 
Mars wore in battle?  Did she exist at all anymore?  'My princess...My 
firebird.  My one and only.  I'm sorry, more sorry than mere words 
alone can describe.  You suffered as a child, in the horrible place 
you and your brother called home and I caused you even more pain when 
I betrayed you, though I had no choice, it still cuts like a knife to 
know that you shed tears because of me.  Is that why in all these 
months of battling you in the here and now I've never seen a hint of a 
the tender and kind woman I held in my arms an eternity ago?  Or is 
her voice so small no one can hear her?'

*And she wonders where these dreams go,
 'Cause the world got in her way,
 What's the point ever trying,
 Nothing's changing anyway...*

	Rei clenched her fists tightly as she met Jadeite's darkly 
brooding azure gaze.  She couldn't let him see her weakness.  The 
thing that she kept hidden, sometimes even from herself, but always 
found herself inexplicably pondering whenever she was near him, 
Jadeite, Beryl's tool, Beryl's pawn.
	Her weakness was her lack of dreams.  Deep in her heart Rei 
had always wondered if being a priestess was what she truly wanted, if 
that was all she was meant to be.  Then she found out she was a Sailor 
Scout.  It had made her feel so special, for the first time in her 
life, but it wasn't enough.  Being a warrior was wonderful but if she 
didn't have anything to fight for what was the point?  
	Sometimes it was if the world or even fate, if there was such 
a thing, was against her.  Serena had her family.  Ami had her mother 
and with her brains could be anything she wanted.  Rei had nobody but 
her grandfather and that didn't count.  She loved him but couldn't 
depend on him.  So she had learned to stand on her own but a building 
without supports soon fell and whenever she met Jadeite's inquisitive 
sapphire gaze she felt herself start to crumble.
	Damn that man that could make her question herself like no one 
ever before.  It infuriated her.  Still locking gazes with him she saw 
Serena making a small movement out of the corner of one violet eye.  
Desparately she tried to hold his gaze just a little longer...but he 
saw Sailor Moon throw her tiara at the last second and turned to 
deflect it.
	Rei gasped at the opening glaring boldly at her.  One fire 
sniper to his undefended side and it would be over.  But why was she 
hesitating?  This was the *enemy*!  Shoving down these strange emotions 
Rei closed her violet eyes and summoned the power of Mars. With a 
fierce battle cry she sent her fire coursing towards Jadeite, 
refusing to let herself wonder at the pain that she felt deep inside 
at her actions...

*They press their lips against you,
 And you love the lies they say,
 And I tried so hard to reach you,
 But you're falling anyway...*

	Jadeite screamed as searing heat burned along his side.  
Staggering to his knees he barely registered Sailor Moon and Sailor 
Mercury's shocked expressions as his hungry eyes fastened on his love.  
She stood still, looking pained, her arms laying limp at her sides and 
he felt a flutter of joy at the tears he could see gathering there in 
the light cast off by the dying flames.  She felt pain for hurting 
him.  No recognition graced her features though, no sign of 
rememberance.  
	He fell silently to his stomach, one arm outstretched as he 
struggled to capture her vision and seal it in his heart, to touch her 
raven hair one last time.  Her etheral beauty began to fade as black 
slowly began to overtake his sight and he was only half aware of the 
intense, fiery pain that coursed through his dying body.  Cracked lips 
parted open.
	"Rei...I've loved you since the dawn of time and I will love 
you for the rest of creation and I'm sorry that it had to be this way.  
Perhaps we'll get another chance, another lifetime, but in this one 
worlds kept us apart.  I was evil and you, my beautiful goddess were 
good."  He blinked and bent his head, letting his fevered forehead 
rest against the cool cement of the building's roof.  He looked up 
once more, fingers stretching out still.
	"Rei?  Rei, where are you?"  He writhed as she began to swim 
and disappear, as if she was falling away from his world of darkness 
into a tunnel of brightest light.  "Mars don't leave me!"  The last was 
an agonized cry that rang out like the previous whispers did not.  He 
coughed weakly and barely noticed that vermilion blood lay where he 
had coughed.  He sighed and fell back against the concrete again.
	He was tired...so so tired...  The last thing he saw was an 
angel dressed in flowing ruby red, ebony hair swirling enchantingly 
around her as she took him in her amrs and led him to peace.
	"My princess, you've come at last..."  As he murmured those 
last words a sweet smile fell across his face and for the first time 
in a thousand years General Jadeite rested.

*And you know I see right through you,
 When the world gets in your way,
 What's the point in all the screaming,
 You're not listening anyway.*

	The three scouts looked at each other in surprise.  Finally 
Rei mustered enough courage to leap to the roof and warily approach 
their enemy.  He was still, even his broad chest wasn't rising and she 
felt slightly ill at the thought.  Hesitantly Ami and Serena joined 
her.  
	Walking forward until she was next to him she knelt and felt 
for a pulse gently on his neck.  His blood was still as well.  There 
was no life in him.  Feeling oddly saddened by this Rei bowed her head
and muttered a soft prayer for his soul before closing his beautiful 
blue eyes forever.
	Rising she turned back to Serena and Ami.  Serena started to 
comfort her but stopped herself.
	"Rei, are you all right?"  Rei bit her lip, considering the 
question.
	"I will be, in a minute, that's all.  I just felt something 
now, like I should remember something but don't quite dare..."  Seeing 
her friend's worried gazes she smiled brightly.
	"Don't be upset, it's nothing I'm sure.  Come on let's get 
home before sunrise..."  Nodding in agreement the three grils linked 
arms and walked away, sobered by what had transpired tonight.  
	And Rei never looked back even though a small voice inside her 
heart whispered for her to with all her might but she shrugged it away.  
This world was not the time or place for fantasies or might have beens.  
She had a job to do, a future to create, and dreams to find.

	On the building's rooftop the lifeless body withered and 
shrank until it was nothing but fine gray dust.  A wind danced, 
lifting the dust in a whirling ballet with a flurry of ruby leaves.  
Swirling together, held by the fickle winds of fate, the leaves and 
dust continued their ballet through the city, the universe, until the 
end of time.  Meeting, parting, yet always finding each other if only 
for the briefest of reunions.


Author's Notes: Well *that* was interesting.  I'm not entirely sure 
where that story came from.  I listened to the song and had the idea 
write a Jadeite/Rei fic but that just kinda, for lack of a better 
phrase, popped out of my brain.LOL Let me know if you like it, if you 
don't, whatever.  I'm off to try to write some more of my story that 
ya'll have been reading up until now.  Put this in with the last 
chapter of Rei: First Love cause it was kinda short and as an added 
bonus for all you Rei fans. Neway have a great week, email, email, 
email!